Okay, so... i've got a crappy compy. 800mhz p3 coppermine, 128mb of RAM. enough said. It took me a few months to be able to play TC:E on it, even ET for that matter. I had to download a new vid card driver, play with my virtual memory size, and a few other things in order to play and to load maps without VM_Create crashing.

for a few weeks, i had TC:E running fine excluding the horrendously long load times and finding out i was spawnkilled every time i finally load a map. heh. But now, i can still play it, but every time i finish loading a map, i am returned to the main menu with a message saying "Server disconnected for unkown reason." I have the option to reconnect. When i reconnect, it usually is successful in loading the map a second time. Usually. For a while it was 3 times, once 4. But now usually 2.

I am "disconnected for unkown reason" on every server, every map. What's up with this?

When i was playing with Rosso a while back, he said there was a Punkbuster notice saying i was kicked for "no packet flow." As in... nothing doing. Could it just be that my computer is teh suxor and "extrememly slow packet flow" comes across as "no packet flow"? But that doesnt explain why i was successful in loading maps once in the past... mehzors.

My name isn't Rosso, bud. That happens to mean that i'm not playing with myself. Rosso and i were on a server, and when the next map finally loaded i was "disconnected for unkown reason" as usual. When i was disconnected, Rosso saw a Punkbuster message ingame saying i was kicked for "no packet flow."

by no packet flow I think PB means is that no data is being sent by you but you are receiving it. I dunno what on earth that is but it happens when attempting to download a map for the next level at most times.

well, Im not sure, it seems like a glitch with both ET and the mod. Ive seen that happen in ET before. usually I just wait it out for the moment. I suggest that you dont adjust the .cfg settings because PB considers that as a hack and will kick and ban.

And Yes that is what i said. You are getting the data from the currently running game but the server is not detecting anything from yuor computer. It is like you are not pinging back to the server. It is a glitch in either the game or just the servers because it doesnt happen on all server. Usually I see it happening on servers that use modified versions of existing maps and thirdparty maps. It doesnt download the modified map because it can detect but doesnt know that the map you have is a different version of the same map. Because of these map differences, your pc is receiving the current packets of data of what is ging on in the game with the modified map, but the map you have doesnt match and therefore it can send back any information taht makes sense to the other map on the server.

Best fix is to get all the maps manually for the server you plan to play on.

Understood. So this is a software/server problem, not a hardware and slow computer problem? That's good news... And how would i be able to "get the maps manually"? Aren't new maps downloaded when you connect, before they're loaded?

the needed maps start downloading once you connect to a server. If you check server infos, some of them have ftps urls or clan websites, visit those site and you should be able to download appropriate map maks for specific servers by name or number if they have multiple servers.

Anyway the next version of TCE will have a pure server filter, which means you can choose to show only the servers that use only the original packaged maps and not thirdparty maps. Plus, downloading all the maps for the current version now wont be wise because they will nolnoger be supprted for the next version.

I suggest playing on admin protected clan servers for the best gameplay. public servers arent any fun unless the player is into using haxs.